* Thomas Bushnell BSG | Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Imagine me having an USB device. The driver opens a network | > connection to firmware.example.com, sends the device identification | > string and gets another string. This one is sent to the USB device | > which then does what it's supposed to do. | | This is a canonical example of a network-downloader package.
No, they download something and unpacks it on a file system. They don't feed the data they download into some device. | Such things normally go in contrib in Debian. Why does this differ significantly from the graphviz-client mentioned earlier? It sends some data and receives some data. -- Tollef Fog Heen ,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]